| SAUNDERS: HBO's documentary on Louis a knockout
Die-hard boxing fans probably are aware of a televised heavyweight bout coming up Saturday night. Wladimir Klitschko battles Sultan Ibragimov. Household names both. While HBO is billing this as World Championship Boxing, it's not, as they say in the fight business, "the feature attraction." The bout is sandwiched between Joe Louis: America's Hero . . . Betrayed, a terrific documentary, premiering at 6 p.m. and repeated after the heavyweight battle. Younger sports fans might not be that familiar with the heroic - and tragic - career of Louis, a career that transcends both the boxing ring and the entire sports arena. The grandson of a slave, Louis became one the greatest heavyweights of all time and served as an iconic figure - for whites and blacks - during World War II.
Izzy takes pals on excellent RV adventure
JUPITER, Fla. — Boredom is the fuel of so many road trips. Jason Isringhausen and a few other Cardinals pitchers let the tedium of the early daze of February take them places a few weeks ago. Here they sat around the spring training clubhouse, realizing that there weren't many teammates around, there wasn't anything to do on a Saturday night and, dadgum, none of them planned to work out on Sunday anyway. So, Isringhausen organized the obvious. They were going to go RV'ing. "There weren't that many people here, there wasn't that much to do," Isringhausen said. "Seemed like a thing to do." And where else do you take an RV than … the infield at Daytona. Isringhausen scored passes for the 30th annual Budweiser Shootout at the Daytona International Speedway.
Let's not overthink playtime
When I was little, my bedroom faced the front of the house. Our neighborhood swarmed with kids. In the summer, the window was always open -- we had no air conditioning, of course -- and I remember my dad liking to take naps there on long Sunday afternoons. Why? Because, he said, he loved so much to hear the happy sounds of the children playing outside. You know, that faraway/right there cacophony of children squealing and yelping and chasing and playing. So unstructured, so fun. A sense of innocence about it. That was at a time when parents literally said, "Go play in the street." At least mine did. We would play four-square and hopscotch by the hour on the quiet street in front of our suburban Chicago (Arlington Heights) home. A car would come, we'd clear out for a moment, then go back to our game.
End of an intellectual whirlwind
A spectre is haunting higher education," Keller declared, "the spectre of decline and bankruptcy." After years of rampaging growth, colleges were gripped by declining enrolments, increased competition, inflating costs, diminishing government support and shifting priorities among those increasingly regarded as higher education's consumers. The future of many traditional institutions was in jeopardy. The only enduring solution, Keller argued, was to take a more vigorous and focused approach to management, using tactics and objectives that had to be developed on an institution-by-institution basis. We could not expect all colleges to accomplish the same things and meet the same standards in the same ways. Nor did it make sense any more to treat the large, expensive, complex modern university as if it were a genteel ramshackle operation to be governed casually and inattentively, if at all.
Eastern Illinois University's Accountancy program to offer Becker CPA ...
CHARLESTON — For the second consecutive year, the Eastern Illinois University Accountancy Program in the School of Business and Becker Professional Review will offer the Becker CPA Review.The course is available for students at Eastern, as well as candidates from surrounding communities and industries. Review sessions will run for six weeks beginning May 12 and will cover CPA examination material related to business environment and concepts, financial accounting, regulation and auditing. Sessions will be weekdays from 8 a.m. to noon.The EIU Accountancy Program joins other major schools and universities nationwide that have chosen to offer students Becker CPA Review as a benefit and to demonstrate its commitment to student success on professional examinations.Becker students pass at twice the rate of all CPA exam candidates who did not take a Becker review course, based on averages of AICPA-published pass rates.
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